Human Nature Page #11

LILA:

Fifteen.

NATHAN:

Perfectomundo! We are ready!

(beat)

Say, wouldn't it be wonderful to

have an insect repellent lotion that

also worked as a sun block? Think of

all the time one would save.

LILA:

Yes, darling.

NATHAN:

I think I'll get Johannsen in

chemistry on that.

(beat)

Oh! Did you bring the first aid kit?

LILA:

Yes.

NATHAN:

Flares?

LILA:

Absolutely.

NATHAN:

We could call it "Quit Bugging Me,

Sunny."

(laughs a lot)

Get it? Sunny. S-u-n-n-y.

LILA:

(laughs appreciatively)

That's very funny.

NATHAN:

I love you so much.

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INT. AUDITORIUM - DAY

Puff testifies.

PUFF:

Then, gentlemen, one day I saw

something I hadn't seen since my

father died in a freak accident

involving a rotted log and four

thousand bees stinging his head... I

saw other human beings. They chattered

away at each other in what appeared

to be gibberish. Later I learned it

was English. Now I wonder if perhaps

my initial assessment hadn't been

correct.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. FOREST - DAY

Puff's POV:
Through some brush we watch Nathan and Lila

hiking. We hear Puff's loud heavy breathing and, in the

distance, the relentless gibberish chatter of Nathan and

Lila. Puff moves. Lila glances over.

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INT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT

Lila talks.

LILA:

It was a flash of white. I ruled out

deer immediately. Too... upright.

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INT. FOREST - DAY

We're with Lila and Nathan now. Lila has stopped and is

peering into the distance.

LILA:

Did you see that?

NATHAN:

What?

LILA:

I don't know. Something.

NATHAN:

A deer?

LILA:

No. Too... upright. Might've been a

person.

NATHAN:

(nervously)

It might behoove us to turn back at

this point.

Lila walks in the direction of the sighting.

LILA:

Come on.

NATHAN:

(not budging)

If it's a person, why should we go

see it? It's not like it's nature or

anything. It's just a person.

(beat)

Sometimes people who live in the

woods don't want to be seen. They

live in the woods because they're

anti-social, Lila. We have to respect

that.

Lila trudges through the brush. Nathan follows. Better than

being left behind.

NATHAN:

This is the way to get ticks, Lila.

This is it. Bingo! Lyme Disease!

You've hit the nail on the head here.

Lila is in her element. Her whole demeanor has changed.

She is tracking. She sniffs the breeze, c*cks her head, moves

stealthily. Then she sheds her clothes, almost shaking them

off, like a dog shaking off some cute costume his owner had

dressed him in.

NATHAN:

Oh for God's sa...

Lila turns her head and glares at Nathan. There is an animal

fierceness in her eye that shuts him up instantly.

She turns back to pursue her prey.

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INT. AUDITORIUM - DAY

Puff testifies.

PUFF:

I had never seen anything like it.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. FOREST - DAY

Puff's POV:
We see a naked Lila looking in our general

direction, but not seeing us. The sun dapples her body.

She moves closer and closer.

PUFF (V.O.)

It was an ape as I had never seen

before. Like me, yet different in

certain essential details. And all

at once I felt a heat pass through

me. My heart raced. Gentlemen, I

wanted to touch her, to caress her,

to be one with her. I had urges and

desires I could not explain. I felt

overwhelmed by the power this strange

creature had over me, and so I did

what any animal would do when it

comes across an animal of superior

strength...

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